| DE | SB85 | Pass | This bill permits the administrative transfer of cases from an aldermans court or mayors court to the Justice of the Peace Court when such a transfer is in the interests of justice. This transferability may be used in cases where an alderman must rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB275 | Enroll | This bill permits the owner of a beer garden or food establishment to permit leashed dogs on licensed outdoor patios of food establishments and in beer gardens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 1 NO 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB80 | Intro | Section 1 of this Act modifies Delawares Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to allow recipients to choose the most beneficial credit to be applied against their Delaware Personal Income Taxes. Under this Act, recipients can choose between a non-refundab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HB179 | Engross | This bill increases the fines for littering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
Reported Out of Committee (Environmental & Natural Resources) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB258 | Intro | This bill allows the Department of Correction to implement prison nurseries, which would allow women inmates that give birth during their time incarcerated the option of raising their infant up to the age of 18 months. Studies have shown that prison ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | SB211 | Intro | The National League of Families POW/MIA flag is a symbol of our Nation's concern and commitment to resolving as fully as possible the fates of Americans still prisoners, missing, or unaccounted for in all U.S. wars 36. U.S.C. § 902.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To Senate Veterans Affairs Committee |
| DE | HB318 | Engross | This Act requires the Department of Education to establish and implement a curriculum on the Holocaust and genocide for students in grades 6 through 12. Teaching the lessons learned from the Holocaust and other genocides helps cultivate the spirit of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
[Hearing: Mar 18 @ 3:30 pm]
To Senate Education Committee |
| DE | HB202 | Enroll | This bill creates a pilot program for the Red Clay School District to utilize external camera systems on their school buses to catch motorists that illegally pass school buses and to punish these motorists by issuing them a civil penalty. The purpose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 1 NO 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HCR64 | Engross | This Concurrent Resolution provides for a Joint Session of the House of Representatives and the Senate to be convened for the purpose of hearing an address by the Honorable John C. Carney, Governor of the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB41 | Engross | Section 1 of this bill moves the date of primary elections for statewide office, county office, and municipal office to the fourth Tuesday in April, which is the date of the presidential primary (in presidential election years). The dates for submitt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
Amendment SA 1 to HB 41 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB271 | Intro | The National League of Families POW/MIA flag, is "a symbol of our Nation's concern and commitment to resolving as fully as possible the fates of Americans still prisoners, missing, or unaccounted for in all U.S. wars" 36. U.S.C. 902. In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SB160 | Intro | This Act makes it unlawful to cause yard waste to be swept, raked, blown, or otherwise placed in a roadway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-06
Stricken in Senate |
| DE | SB15 | Pass | This Act, modeled on similar laws in Virginia and Maryland, requires a health-care provider to provide notice to a patient at the time blood is drawn to perform a laboratory test for Lyme disease that explains the limitations of the test and instruct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-21
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB30 | Pass | Unmanned aircraft systems are capable of introducing contraband into detention facilities without undergoing correctional officer inspections. This bill seeks to prohibit the use of unmanned aircraft systems (drones) to introduce contraband into dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-08
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB156 | Pass | This bill allows our wounded warriors or similar veterans' organizations who have been honorably discharged from the armed forces of the United States and have at least a 60% service-connected disability to be able to obtain a license to hunt, tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-01
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB95 | Pass | This Act expands the permitted uses of unclaimed electric cooperative capital credits to include investments in energy services for low income members and energy efficiency, renewable energy, battery storage, electrification and emerging energy techn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB174 | Pass | This Act establishes standards for data security for Title 18 licensees and standards for the investigation of and notification to the Commissioner of a cybersecurity event affecting Title 18 licensees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-31
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB156 | Pass | In January 2019, the Code Revisors provided the General Assembly with a list of potential technical corrections that they identified as they revised the Delaware Code to reflect legislation that was enacted by the 149th General Assembly in 2018 or as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB175 | Pass | Currently, the SEED program allows students a maximum of 6 semesters to complete an Associate Degree. This Bill allows SEED eligible students who complete their Associate Degree in fewer than 6 semesters to apply the remaining semesters of the grant ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB101 | Pass | The opioid epidemic spreading through Delaware has reached critical levels, with 210 fentanyl-related deaths in 2017. This legislation will update the schedule for Fentanyl analogues, consistent with language used by the Drug Enforcement Administrati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB228 | Pass | This Act allows Sussex County, by duly enacted ordinance, to impose a local lodging tax of no more than 3 percent of rent on rooms in a hotel, motel or tourist home located in the unincorporated areas of the County. Such funds may only be used in Sus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB80 | Pass | This Act changes the composition of the Council on Recreational Fishing Funding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-04
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB49 | Intro | This bill changes the earned income tax credit from nonrefundable to refundable. For tax year 2020 and thereafter, the rate of the credit is in the amount of 5.9 %.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-30
Stricken in House |
| DE | SB129 | Intro | This Act exempts a number of nonprofit corporations from property taxation or assessment by a county or other political subdivision of the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-30
Stricken in Senate |
| DE | SCR63 | Engross | This Concurrent Resolution confirms Mark J. Cutrona as the new Director of Research of Legislative Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-30
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB133 | Engross | This Act amends the Delaware Governmental Accountability Act to make the annual budget process part of a performance management system of strategic planning, performance metrics and performance budgeting, dedicated to continuous process improvement t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
Reported Out of Committee (Elections, Govt. & Community Affairs) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | SCR59 | Engross | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes September 2019 as "Prostate Cancer Awareness Month" in the State of Delaware
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HCR58 | Intro | This concurrent resolution encourages the Department of Education to establish RAVE security systems in all public and charter schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HCR56 | Intro | This resolution establishes the Interagency Fines and Fees Task Force to study and make findings and recommendations on the impact court-imposed fines and fees have on defendants and the imposition and collection of court-imposed fines and fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HR15 | Intro | This Resolution directs the Department of Transportation to make improvements to the administrative process of the collection of toll violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR55 | Engross | This concurrent resolution recognizes the 100th anniversary of the American Legion Auxiliary in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB136 | Intro | The purpose of the Bill is to protect farmers and ranchers from nuisance lawsuits filed by individuals who inhabit areas where agricultural operations lawfully exist, and who exercise nuisance actions to attempt to stop operation and production. This...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-20
Reported Out of Committee (Agriculture) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HCR55 | Engross | This concurrent resolution recognizes and honors the young women of Delaware participating in the 2019 session of Delaware Girls State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-20
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB244 | Intro | This bill will allow marinas in Sussex County to sell gasoline that does not contain ethanol. Sussex County comfortably meets the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ground level ozone, and removing ethanol from marine fuel will have no signifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-20
To House Economic Development/Banking/Insurance & Commerce Committee |
| DE | HB162 | Intro | This bill creates the Grants-In-Aid Committee. The Committee is a joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives. The purpose of the Committee is to view requests for grants-in-aid and to develop the grants-in-aid appropriations bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-19
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | HCR50 | Engross | This joint resolution is designed to establish a task force to study and make findings concerning the recruitment and retention of volunteer firefighters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-18
Passed By Senate. Votes: 19 YES 2 ABSENT |
| DE | HB31 | Pass | This bill defines Street Rods to correspond with the same age requirement as used for antique motor vehicles, and would remove a fender requirement. Historically Street Rods are open-wheeled vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB94 | Pass | This Act will increase payments of child support arrears or retroactive support from payments for settlements and awards from negligence, personal injury, and workers compensation cases by requiring that all insurers share information with an insuran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HCR49 | Engross | This Resolution recognizes the young men participating in the 2019 session of Delaware's Boys State and commends its sponsor, the American Legion Department of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HCR47 | Intro | This concurrent resolution establishes a Task Force to investigate the cost of special education to include recommending strategies to improve cost efficiencies and outcomes for special education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 5 Favorable, 10 On Its Merits |
| DE | SCR52 | Engross | This Concurrent Resolution designates May 2019 as ALS Awareness Month in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB210 | Intro | This bill establishes a 2 year residential drinking water purification system pilot grant program to be administered through the Department of Health and Social Services with funding from the Non-Federal Administrative Allowance of the Drinking Water...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 7 On Its Merits |
| DE | HR11 | Intro | This House Resolution requests each school district and charter school to release in a timely fashion a list containing the names and addresses of all graduating high school seniors to the Department of Education. The Department of Education is reque...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR45 | Engross | This resolution congratulates the class 2018-2019 Eagle Scouts for having attained the highest rank one can earn in the Boy Scouts of America.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-11
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB149 | Intro | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to establish the right to hunt and fish in Delaware. Twenty-one other states have preserved the rights of their citizens to hunt, fish, or trap wildlife. This Act is modeled after the constituti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-11
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | SCR51 | Engross | This Concurrent Resolution celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Office of the Controller General.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-06
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB29 | Intro | Establishing a suspect's identity is critical to their processing by law enforcement. DNA analysis provides unparalleled accuracy in establishing identity. The United States Supreme Court held that "DNA identification of arrestees is a reaso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-05
Reported Out of Committee (Public Safety & Homeland Security) in House with 8 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB8 | Intro | Employment for formerly incarcerated individuals is a major barrier to transitioning and re-entering the community. The National Institute of Justice estimates that 60% of ex-offenders are jobless one year after their release. Improving access to emp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-30
Amendment HA 1 to HB 8 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB167 | Intro | This bill amends the notice provision of the Administrative Procedures Act to include copies of the regulatory flexibility analysis and the economic impact statement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-30
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB165 | Intro | This act will be known as the Extreme Crimes Protection Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
